Empty-Base Explanation

Empty-Base Explanation

Fundamentality

his book develops and applies a novel kind of explanation: Empty-Base Explanation. While ordinary explanations have a tripartite structure involving an explanandum, a base of reasons why the explanandum obtains, and a link that connects the reasons to the explanandum, this book argues that there are explanations whose corresponding set of reasons is empty. This novel idea is located in the theoretical background of several fundamental philosophical issues. For example, it provides a convincing kind of ultimate or final explanation that completely and conclusively explains a phenomenon without involving other phenomena for which further explanations could be demanded.

Yannic Kappes

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111069500/html

De Gruyter

2023

Prasetyo Adi Nugroho

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English

Textbooks

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111069500
ISBN: 9783111069241